Weekly Welding News

Lincoln Electric is teamed up with several Ohio Boy Scout troops to provide
a thorough, hands-on introduction to welding. Northern Ohio’s News
Herald reported, “more than 100 Boy Scouts from across Ohio visited
Lincoln Electric in Euclid on Saturday to try their hand at learning some basic
welding skills and earn a welding merit badge.”

Photo Credit: News
Herald

Scouts learned about basic welding safety, welding techniques, and welding
career options. The culmination of the welding day was a 3-D eagle welding
project.

The New Herald reported, “Jason Scales, welding education specialist at
Lincoln Electric, said students learned practical skills in welding, but
officials also tried to help them connect the dots to other forms of education.
‘So what we’re trying to do is (figure out) how can we take welding education
and touch and reach out to different formats and bring it all together and have
a clear understanding and have some relevance for these kids.'”

Don’t have your welding merit badge yet? No worries. There are plenty of
welding training programs popping up all over the nation in order to fill the
latest welding job needs.

Welding Jobs

Techpointe
Mobile Training Program Puts Welders to Work in Florida: “The mobile skills
training program, known as TechPoint, was established by the nonprofit Florida
Manufacturing Extension Partnership.

Across Florida, there are a lot of jobs in manufacturing and not enough
workers with the skills to fill them. The program aims to close that gap, said
Ted Astolfi, deputy director of the partnership.”

Airbus
Could Bring Welding Jobs to Northern Florida: “Economic teams from Escambia
and Santa Rosa Counties are hoping to lure part suppliers and jobs. The Greater
Pensacola Chamber is working to grow existing companies that deal with airplane
assembly.  They are also working on attracting new companies by developing
new marketing materials aimed directly at Airbus.”

Welding Education

Welding
Institute Launching Bigger Lab in Wisconsin: “The Welding Skills Institute
is using a combined $80,000 it received from Jackson County and the Black River
Falls School District to expand its BRF High School-based lab and, in turn,
welcome more participants.

The initiative, started last year in an effort to fill a growing local need
for skilled welders, will begin its first regular session May 13 with nearly
double the number of participants it had in each of its two pilot sessions.”

Needed
Skills Are Taught at Mobile Community College: “Jefferson Davis Community
College will continue to prepare students for manufacturing and technical jobs
with employers like Airbus, which broke ground Monday on a facility in Mobile.

There are several courses offered at JDCC campuses in Brewton and Atmore
where students can finish with a certificate they can show directly to an
employer upon completion, said Al Bennett, director of Workforce Development at
JDCC.”

Welding
Program Builds Careers in Illinois: “Ashlee Liphardt is discovering the
spark for success. That’s because the junior at DeWitt Central High is finding a
future in welding. ‘I’m actually really good at this,’ she said. ‘I could make
good money, so why not do it?’

Competing Friday with 57 other high school students at Midwest Technical
Institute in Moline, she seems to be on the right path. Welding needs more
women.”

Welding Events

AWS Pipelines
Conference: June 4-5, 2013 in Houston, TX.

“Some of the key subjects that will be covered include the intense interest
in the welding of the high strength X80 pipe steels, the many orbital processes
that are seeing the light of day in pipeline spreads and from offshore barges
throughout the world.”

AWS Codes and
Standards Conference: July 16-17, 2013 in Orlando, FL.

“Technical standards are among the most valuable documents available to
manufacturers and fabricators of welded products. This AWS conference will take
a deep dive into AWS D1 structural codes, the ASME Boiler and Pressure Vessel
Code, API pipeline codes, and military and ISO standards. Designers, inspectors,
and QC specialists will gain new insights and career-enhancing knowledge.”

Welding Gone Wrong

Syracuse
House Fire Caused by Welding Accident: “Owner Henry Green was welding in a
rear enclosed porch about 5:30 p.m. when the house caught fire. The flames from
616 Hawley Avenue reached 10 to 20 feet high before firefighters could contain
the blaze, said John King, a neighbor whose sister, Maryann Green, co-owns the
house with her husband.”

Spark
from Welder Causes Home Fire: “WATERLOO, Iowa – A Waterloo Battalion Chief
says stray sparks from a welding torch started a late night basement fire. It
happened just before 10 p.m. at 511 Cutler Street in Waterloo. Battalion Chief
Michael Moore says the fire started when a spark from a welding torch ignited
some nearby cardboard.”

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